just fixed in trunk.

On Sep 30, 6:28 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> The change of URL(...) from a string to an XML() helper bites me when
> I upgrade my old web2py from trunk today.
>
> I can change my own app's code to adapt the latest URL(...) behavior,
> but am just writing to let people know there is one more scenario in
> which the new URL(...) breaks code. Here is my favorite code.
>
> response.menu = [
>     [ 'Home', request.url == URL(r=request, f='index'), URL(r=request,
> f='index'), [] ],
>     [ 'About', request.url == URL(r=request, f='about'),
> URL(r=request, f='about'), [] ],
>     ....
>     ]
>
> The new URL(...) breaks above code because from now on,
>     URL(r=request) == URL(r=request)
> would NEVER BE TRUE!
>
> We have to write code like:  str(URL(r=request)) ==
> str(URL(r=request))
>
> By the way, I strongly recommend Massimo to contain "link of the
> discussion [1]" into hg commit log.  That would make reader's life
> easier.
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/a52007de9a7c5...
>
> Regards,
> Iceberg
>
> On Aug 20, 9:38 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > There is a problem (in 1.83.2 and earlier version)
>
> > URL(....)
>
> > returns a string, not a helper. If you want to include the string
> > without escaping twice you have to do
>
> > {{=XML(URL(...))}}
>
> > In trunk, I modified the definition ofURLso that it returns the
> > XML(..) helper wrapping the string. This will prevent
>
> > {{=URL(...)}}
>
> > from double escaping but will prevent you from doing
>
> > 'http://127.0.0.:8000'+URL(..)
>
> > you would have to do
>
> > 'http://127.0.0.:8000%s'%URL(..)
>
> > we cannot have it both ways.
>
> > URLis either a helper or a string... The more I think about it the
> > more I am convincedURLshould be a helper not a string otherwise all
> > the examples in which we use {{=URL(...)}} are buggy. Therefore this
> > change should be considered a bug fix and not a breaking of backward
> > compatibility.
>
> > What do other people think? Should we change this as in trunk or leave
> > it alone?
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Aug 19, 1:39 pm, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Trunk version Rev 853
>
> > > in view:
> > > $("#list").jqGrid({
>
> > >url:"{{=URL(r=request,f='listMIME.json',vars={'extracted_path':extracted_pa
> > > th,'source_path':source_path})}}",
>
> > > HTML Result:
> > >     $("#list").jqGrid({
> > >    url:"/sExtract/extraction/listMIME.json?source_path=home*&amp*
> > > ;extracted_path=target",
>
> > > it insert  &amp;instead of &
>
> > > that screwed up all my sites :D ..
>
> > > have not tested with released version ..
>
>

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